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Readme file "Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand 
for Healthcare?" by Amaral-Garcia, Nardotto, Propper and Valletti.
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The project combines 3 main data sources:
a) The Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), supplied by The Hospital Episode Statistics
b) Broadband Internet data, supplied by Ofcom (see https://www.ofcom.org.uk/home)
c) Census data, supplied by the ONS UK Census 

Two sources a) and b) are not for public access, but the authors provide in the relication package:
i) Script to produce the final data, starting from the 3 data sources and matching/processing
them. 
ii) Script to reproduce the results (tables and figures) reported in the paper.

Also, the authors:
i) Provide commented scripts, to ease interpretation of the steps
ii) Will provide support to other researcher who can obtain the data (or part of the data) 
to help in the replication of the paper's results


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Content of the replication package. The folder contains 3 Stata scripts:
  1- DataConstruction.do: creates the data file for the estimation
  2- DescriptiveGraphs.do: generates descriptive statistics tables and figures
  3- Regressions.do: runs the regression analysis and produces table output

as mentioned above, all files contain comments and are thus easy to interpret. Files 2- and 3-
also report the number of the figure or table that is produced.




